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GUSTAV KARL LUDWIG RICHTER (1823-84)
Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna, Duchess of Edinburgh (1853-1920)
Signed and dated 1873RCIN 405024
Queen Victoria received this portrait just before her son’s marriage to the sitter in St Petersburg. She praised the likeness as ‘beautiful and quite worthy of a Winterhalter’. On the day of the wedding she recorded in her Journal how the picture was ‘surrounded by a wreath of evergreens & some orange flowers, tied with bows of the Russian colours’.
Presented to Queen Victoria by Emperor Alexander II.
Presented to Queen Victoria by Emperor Alexander II.
J.& W. VOKINS / CARVERS & GILDERS / TO THE ROYAL FAMILY / 14 & 16 GREAT PORTLAND ST. W
WINDSOR CASTLE INVENTORY....[date] / No.... [inventory number]; oval stamp referring to the Victorian Pictures Inventory[1874] No 1802
[crown] / VR [encircled by] Queen's Personal Property ; stamp]
